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We’re onDownwind
Downwind Studio is a small independent developer building addons for flight simulators. Nothing has shipped yet — we’re setting up the approach.
- Status
- In development
- Team
- Independent
- Platform
- Microsoft Flight Simulator2024 & 2020
- Contact
- hello@downwind.studio
We build the kind of addon we’d want to fly.
We’re small on purpose — the person modelling the cockpit is the same person reading the flight manual at midnight to get the fuel logic right.
Fidelity is the whole point. Systems that behave the way the real ones behave. A flight model you have to actually fly. Detail that holds up when you lean in.
We’d rather ship one aircraft that stays in your Community folder for years than a shelf of things you fly once.
Three things we won’t cut.
Systems that behave
Buses, valves, bleed air, failure modes. If the manual says a switch does something, it does that thing — including when it goes wrong.
A model you have to fly
Weight and balance you can feel. Handling that changes with the state of the aircraft. No invisible hand quietly holding the wings level.
Still here after release
Sim updates break things. Support isn’t a launch-week promise, and it’s the reason we’re keeping the scope honest from the start.
Nothing to download yet
The first project is in the hangar and it isn’t ready to show. If you want to hear when it rolls out — or you build things too, or you’d like to break ours before everyone else does — send a note.
hello@downwind.studio